In this round up, we have put together a collection of 50 Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials that will help you learn creating awesome text effects. All these tutorials are very easy to follow. Enjoy!

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Here we have put together 15 useful and exceptionally versatile Chrome extensions that are of great interest for the designers and developers but practically can be used by almost every user. Chrome is the most preferred web browser for the developers and designers because it comes with plenty of built-in developer tools making it unbelievably versatile and fast to use.

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Most of the sites across the globe are blacking out on January 18th.

     Read also “How to implement Barrel Roll“

When the user searches for “let it snow” you can see the snow flakes falling down your browser, you can clear the fog on the browser by clicking the mouse button & moving the cursor.
Nonetheless, Google provides you the “Defrost” as well to clear the screen.

Google has finally launched Google Plus pages for brands and publishers as promised. When Google+ first launched, it had asked brands and publishers not to create pages for their own sites, promising that there would be an official solution coming shortly.
It’s the google+ version of facebook fan page with more features.

Google+ pages are not available to everyone as of initial launch. If you’re profile is selected, you can create google+ pages here.
https://plus.google.com/pages/create

Checkout this link if you are lucky & fill in the details to get your page.
https://plus.google.com/pages/create.

I have added a google+ page for pepsi below:
Pepsi

Google+ page for iKreations

Firefox 8 comes in only one and half months after Firefox 7 being inline with Mozilla’s new rapid release strategy, under which we can expect a new roll out of Firefox every 6 weeks.

Firefox 8 is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, November 8th. If you upgrading sooner via FTP server, please be sure to read updates on Firefox 8 compatibility here.

The biggest new feature is that Firefox itself now handles third party add-on installations to avoid security problems. Load tabs on demand at start up. Also included in the support to search Twitter messages in the browser’s address bar.

Windows, Mac and Linux flavors are available.

Download here
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/8.0/

Find the updates/changes in the firefox 8 here

Again, Google entertained it’s users with a “dο a barrel roll” gimmick which spins the entire search page for this search query. It was a trending topic in twitter.
It was done using the css3 transitions & transforms, while showcasing the power of CSS3, a presentation feature of modern browsers.

I tried to figure out the implementation part of it by googling out which didn’t return me the actual implementation(which works).So I did a small reverse engineering to figure that out.

This purely works on the CSS3 transitions property whose specifications are still in the draft form. So all properties associated with them should be prefixed with “-moz-” for use in Gecko (Mozilla Firefox browser). For compatibility with WebKit, you should also use the “-webkit-” prefix, and for Opera compatibility, use the “-o-” prefix.
You would specify the transition property as -moz-transition, -webkit-transition, and -o-transition.

Add this styles for body tag which performs the spin (alternately you can use the class as well) compatible with latest of the browsers.

body{
-moz-animation-name: roll;
-moz-animation-duration: 4s; //spin 360 deg in 4 sec
-moz-animation-iteration-count: 1; //spin only once
-o-animation-name: roll;
-o-animation-duration: 4s;
-o-animation-iteration-count: 1;
-webkit-animation-name: roll;
-webkit-animation-duration: 4s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1;
}

The CSS function rule “roll” is defined to rotate 360 deg.
@-moz-keyframes roll { 100% { -moz-transform: rotate(360deg); } }

The basic version of code which can be used/tested.

<html>
<head>
<style>

@-moz-keyframes roll { 100% { -moz-transform: rotate(360deg); } }
@-o-keyframes roll { 100% { -o-transform: rotate(360deg); } }
@-webkit-keyframes roll { 100% { -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg); } }

body{
-moz-animation-name: roll;
-moz-animation-duration: 4s;
-moz-animation-iteration-count: 1;
-o-animation-name: roll;
-o-animation-duration: 4s;
-o-animation-iteration-count: 1;
-webkit-animation-name: roll;
-webkit-animation-duration: 4s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1;
}

</style>

</head>
<body >

<p>Go ahead & do a barrel roll on your site</p>
<p>Go ahead & do a barrel roll on your site</p>
<p>Share it, if you like it</p>
<p>Share it, if you like it</p>
<p>Thank you </p>
<p>Thank you </p>

</body>
</html>

Since this feature is still in development in some browsers, this may not work in older browsers.
The same effect can be achieved by entering “Z or R twice” into the search bar.

If you wanna know how i did to this site(If you have not seen it while page the loaded, just refresh the page):

Added a below javascript to add a css class “barrel-roll” to the body with the above properties after 3 secs to allow page load.

if(location.href.match(‘do-a-barrel-roll’)){ //check if URL has barrel roll text
setTimeout(“document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].className=’barrel-roll’;”,3000);
}

• Email pushed automatically to your phone
• Search all your messages
• Access synched messages when off line
• View messages by conversation
• Multiple Gmail accounts
• Stars, labels, and many other features

2. K-9 Mail
K-9 is the best email client for Android(after gmail…). It’s incredibly powerful and 100% free.
K-9 Mail is an open-source e-mail client with search, IMAP push email, multi-folder sync, flagging, filing, signatures, bcc-self, PGP, mail on SD & more!
K-9 supports IMAP, POP3 and Exchange 2003/2007 (with WebDAV).
K-9 is a community developed project.

3. ProfiMail
ProfiMail is a powerful email client that supports POP, IMAP and SMTP. This was a success on the Symbian platform. The list of features is extensive and includes support for multiple accounts, push email (using IMAP IDLE), signatures, HTML email and excellent support for attachments.
The program was designed to be as simple as possible, while offering very easy control, and many useful functions, essential for comfortable work with your email.

Features:

• Automatic synchronization of messages with the mail server
• IMAP folders
• Attachments – view, save, send
• HTML messages with images and hyperlinks
• Built-in File Explorer
• Push email – instant notification about new messages (using IMAP IDLE)
• Address book
• Signatures
• Support for POP3 / IMAP / SMTP mail servers
• Writing mails using T9 dictionary (if available on phone)
• Multiple email accounts
• Rules and filters allowing selective message download
• Opens and browses ZIP archives
• Support for various character encoding – Western, Cyrillic, Central European, and more
• Build-in image viewer for JPG, PNG and other popular formats
• Text viewer for standard text, HTML and Word documents
• Optimized for GPRS – get headers first, then download message bodies which you really want to see
• Access Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo mail, and other webmail accounts’ via POP3 or IMAP support
• Scheduled message download
• Sound notifications

4. TochDown
TochDown from Nitrodesk lets you access your corporate email, contacts, calendar and tasks right on your Android device. It supports Exchange, Zimbra, Kerio, Novell GroupWise and other servers used in corporate environments. Nitrodesk allows you to buy the licence directly from them in case your SIM card is from one of the many countries that are not allowed to buy apps on the Android Market.

Major Improvements in version 7

• Expanded list of supported MDM solutions : Afaria, AirSync, FiberLink, MobileIron, NotifyMDM, SOTI, Zenprise, WaveLink.
• Improved User interface for tablets
• Ability to show summary of email body when viewing email list.
• Improved multi select operations
• Updated S/MIME security
• Resizable, scrollable widgets for Honeycomb 3.1 devices
• Improved battery life

For more feature list of tochdown visit here